Dominique-Amable Coutlée
1822–1882Canadian politician
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At the top of the list is the Canadian politician Dominique-Amable Coutlée, covered in one language. Mathieu Quesnel is second and Xavier Villeneuve third. For more famous names, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield is 8 km away: its list has 80, led by Jean-Luc Brassard. The list’s best known name, Dominique-Amable Coutlée, dates from 1822.

By how many languages cover them, Dominique-Amable Coutlée comes first (1), then Mathieu Quesnel (1) and Xavier Villeneuve (1).
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The largest field is Politics & Law, with 1 people.
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Salaberry-de-Valleyfield · 8 kmJean-Luc Brassard & 79 more
Vaudreuil-Dorion · 8 kmMaxime Deschamps & 11 moreMLL'Île-Perrot · 11 kmMarc Lalonde & 4 moreABSaint-Clet · 12 kmAugustin Bourbonnais & 4 more
Coteau-du-Lac · 9 kmJules Fournier & 2 moreLCLes Coteaux · 13 kmLucie Charlebois & 2 moreLMPointe-des-Cascades · 7 kmLucette Moreau
Pincourt · 9 kmAlexandre BurrowsBy our measure the best known is Dominique-Amable Coutlée (Canadian politician); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Mathieu Quesnel and Xavier Villeneuve.
Wikidata has 9 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
Here the share is 33%; across Canadian towns it is 22%.
Dominique-Amable Coutlée, from 1822; the most recent birth on the list is from 2007.
The list takes people born within Les Cèdres’ municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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